Some experts believe that is better for children to begin learning a foreign language at primary school rather than secondary school.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Choosing a suitable age for learning a foreign language is often regarded as a controversial issue. Some prefer primary school as a right platform, whereas others argue that teaching a new language at secondary school will benefit children more. However, in my perspective, studying a different language at a younger age will have more positive impacts than negative.
To begin with, some experts hold the view that introducing a whole new language to children in primary school can be proved as a barrier to learn their native language thoroughly as young pupils can get confused by two different grammar and pronunciation at the same time. Additionally, the learning of a foreign language will be an added pressure on the tender minds of little learners and will deprive them of the fun time. However, studies have proved that young children are often very excited and are free of any social stress, so they usually learn a new language with full excitement and fun. Moreover, it is seen that children mostly converse at home in their language with their family members and do not use the other one, so there are rare chances for them to juggle between two languages. For instance, From my personal experience, we were introduced to English at the age of six as a subject in the school, and it was never a hurdle to learn my mother tongue. On the contrary, it provided the opportunity to make a difference between the two.
Furthermore, it is observed that secondary school students are more self-aware and self-conscious, so they tend to avoid mistake intentionally. Nevertheless, young learners are usually free of these emotions, so they learn the language without any fear of getting embarrassed and almost sounded like a native speaker of the language by the time they reach
secondary school. In addition to this, knowing another language provide them with the opportunity to broaden their horizons and improve their social skills when dealing with foreign people. Again, with a talent of speaking a different language expertly give them ample of chances to study in a different country and help them in settling their careers. Also, Kids can enjoy other spheres of life if they already know a different language. For example, with the quality of speaking English, Chinese kids can watch different English tv programmes, can enjoy Hollywood movies and on the top of it, will be able to play games that come with English instructions only.
Finally, It is clear that learning a different language at a very early age can open many opportunities to children later in the life. It is also said 'the sooner, the better'. So in the world of technology with massive competition, it is imperative to acquire the skill of speaking different languages. Children can learn these languages in their early years of school as their minds act like a blank canvas where anything can be painted. So it is more advantageous to learn a different language in earlier years of schooling.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, furthermore, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, whereas, for example, for instance, in addition, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 24.0651302605 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 41.998997996 162% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2486.0 1615.20841683 154% => OK
No of words: 500.0 315.596192385 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.972 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.20363070211 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76340369834 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 176.041082164 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488 0.561755894193 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 779.4 506.74238477 154% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.9595078217 49.4020404114 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.3 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.67935871743 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296836910353 0.244688304435 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0928428483119 0.084324248473 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0712751967427 0.0667982634062 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177411224593 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0817497918794 0.056905535591 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.4159519038 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.